Complexity in World Politics: Concepts and Methods of a New Paradigm

Contributors

Contributors ROBERT AXELROD is Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation which has been cited in more than five hundred books and four thousand articles. His current research interests include complexity theory (especially agent-based modeling ), and international security. His most recent books, The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration and (with Michael D. Cohen) Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier, explore the application of complexity to understanding politics and organizations . He has been elected president of the American Political Science Association for 2006-07. RAVI BHAVNANI, Ph.D. in political science (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2003), is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. He received his doctoral degree in comparative politics and methodology, with an emphasis on agent-based modeling. His research focuses on the micro-foundations of mass participation in ethnic violence, civil war, and popular rebellion in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. WALTER C. CLEMENS, JR. is Professor of Political Science, Boston University, and Associate, Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He has written or edited fifteen books, including The Baltic Transformed: Complexity Theory and European Security (2001) and Dynamics of International Relations: Conflict and Mutual Gain in an Era of Global Interdependence (2d. ed., 2004). His current research focuses on the ways that revolutions in literacy and free thought, initiated in Europe circa 1500, have contributed to societal fitness as understood by complex systems theory. Clemens studied in Vienna and Moscow but received an A.B. from Notre Dame University, Magna Cum Laude, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at M.I.T. and lectured widely in Eurasia, the Americas, and along the Pacific Rim. 197 DAVID C. EARNEST is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, where he teaches international political economy, international relations theory and political methodology. His substantive research focuses on the political incorporation of migrants in democratic societies, while his methodology interests are in the application of agent-based models to problems of international politics. He is co-author of On the Cutting Edge of Globalization: An Inquiry into American Elites (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005; with James N. Rosenau, Ole R. Holsti and Yale H. Ferguson). Previously he held an appointment as a Fellow in Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. NEIL E. HARRISON’s research interests include complex systems and international environmental politics. His book Constructing Sustainable Development (SUNY 2000) linked both research interests. He also has co-edited Science and Politics in the International Environment (Rowman and Littlefield 2004) with Gary Bryner and has published other articles and chapters on international environmental politics. He received his doctorate from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1994 and has taught in Colorado, Wyoming, and Taiwan. MATTHEW J. HOFFMANN is an Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on global environmental governance, complexity theory, and social constructivism. His recent publications include the book Ozone Depletion and Climate Change: Constructing a Global Response from SUNY Press (2005) and a coedited volume Contending Perspectives on Global Governance with Alice Ba (Routledge Press 2005). JAMES N. ROSENAU is University Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. A former president of the International Studies Association, he has authored a number of books and articles. Among his recent books three stand out retrospectively as a trilogy: Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity (Princeton 1990), Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier : Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World (Cambridge 1997), and Distant Proximities : Dynamics Beyond Globalization (Princeton 2003). DENNIS J. D. SANDOLE received his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Strathcyde in Glasgow, Scotland in 1979. He is professor of conflict resolution and international relations at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University. A founder-member of ICAR, he worked closely with conflict resolution pioneer John Burton in Britain and the US. His main areas of interest include “identity” conflict/conflict resolution in the 198 CONTRIBUTORS Balkans, Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and Southeast Asia...